Sacrifice

"Having loved his own . . . he loved them unto the end." John 13:1

Sadhu Sundar Singh passed a crowd of people putting out a jungle fire at the foot of the Himalayas. Several men, however, were standing gazing at a tree, the branches of which were already alight.

"What are you looking at?" he asked. They pointed to a nest of young birds in the tree. Above it a bird was flying wildly to and fro in great distress. The men said, 'We wish we could save that tree, but the fire prevents us from getting near to it."

A few minutes later the nest caught fire. The Sadhu thought the mother bird would fly way. But no! she flew down, spread her wings over the young ones, and in a few minutes was burned to ashes with them.

"Such love, such wondrous love,
Such love, such wondrous love,
That God should love a sinner such as I,
How wonderful is love like this!"

Let us have love heated to the point of sacrifice.

By Mrs. Charles E. Cowman taken from "Springs in the Valley"